Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, The Council of Canadians
Maude Barlow has been a pioneer on the fight to make access to water a human right, she asks us to regard “nature” as inalienable to our existence.and not as a commodity to be traded in the free market economy.
Naomi Klein, Journalist, Author, and Social Activist
Naomi calls for system change through a re-localizing of our economies and a fundamental shift away from capitalism’s reliance on endless economic growth.
This year’s Earth Day brought 3 women together who have destroyed many “glass ceilings” – Amy Goodman from “Democracy Now”, Dr Vandana Shiva from Navdanya & Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians. All are tireless workers for human and ecological “rights”.
Stock market trader Alessio Rastani set the world back in their lounge chairs with perhaps the most truthful statement ever explaining why global governments are impotent and unable to provide a society fit for the majority of its inhabitants. Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone journalist had detailed exactly the same thing in an long, but very readable article in April 2010 on Goldman Sachs (see link below). The bottom line – they just don’t care about anything else but money. Continue reading
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